‘Quilting/Sewing’ Archive

Now with ultraviolent zombie mayhem!

Finished quilt #2, a small wall-hanging quilt. Its construction is chronicled here:

Rail Fence Wallhanging Quilt

In other news, there’s not much news. I just finished reading the most awesome book ever: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. No, really. Someone took Pride and Prejudice and re-wrote it with zombies in it. It [...]

Update, in photos

Check it out, I FINALLY got around to making our front flower beds look halfway decent:

I planted gerbera daisies:

Zinnias (not pictured), “Joeys” (a.k.a. pink mulla mullas, also not pictured, apparently I am incapable of remembering where I stashed my pictures), and portulacas:

Oh, and also a butterfly bush that should have dark-purple-almost-black flowers:

And also cool: bees [...]

That awful dress

So I sort of finished the dress I mentioned a post or two ago. Because it came out so spectacularly horrible, I am going out on a limb here and posting pictures. It was really THAT bad.
Observe the front. From a distance it doesn’t look so bad. Note that I gave [...]

Hobby-ing (again)

No new and interesting news to report here these days, hence the gaps between posts. I got tired of the Twitter digest posts, so if you want to keep up with my microblogging life, you’ll just have to click on the Twitter widget on the sidebar over there. Or maybe get your own [...]

I totally made a quilt, y’all

Finished my first quilt today. And the logical course of action now is to blog about it. Here’s the album:

EcoBreeze Basketweave Quilt

I’m pretty proud of it–it’s currently keeping me warm here on the couch. It didn’t come out perfectly, but as long as you don’t look at it too closely, it’s not [...]

Number 500

First, I would like to begin this post by pointing out this is my 500th post. There will be a ticker-tape parade later this afternoon in my cubicle, if you’re interested. Or maybe not.
Part of the reason I haven’t written much lately is because I have been consumed by a new crafting obsession: [...]